Web Browser-Based Configuration; Start-Up Mcraid Storage Manager - Areca ARC-1880 Series User Manual

WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION

6. Web Browser-based Configuration
Before using the firmware-based browser McRAID storage manager, do
the initial setup and installation of this product. If you need to boot up
the operating system from a RAID volume set, you must first create a
RAID volume by using McBIOS RAID manager. Please refer to section
3.3 Using Quick Volume /Raid Setup Configuration for information on
creating this initial volume set.
The McRAID storage manager is firmware-based utility, which is acces-
sible via the web browser installed on your operating system.The web
browser-based McRAID storage manager is a HTML-based application,
which utilizes the browser (IE, Netscape and Mozilla etc) installed on
your monitor station.
It can be accessed through the In-Band PCIe 2.0 bus or Out-of-Band
LAN port. The In-Band method via archttp proxy server to launch the
web browser-based McRAID storage manager. The firmware-embedded
web browser-based McRAID storage manager allows local or remote
to access it from any standard internet browser via a LAN or WAN with
no software or patches required. The firmware contains SMTP manager
monitors all system events and user can select either single or multiple
user notifications to be sent via LAN with "Plain English" e-mails. The
firmware-embedded SNMP agent allows remote to monitor events via
LAN with no SNMP agent required.
• Create RAID set
• Expand RAID set
• Define volume set
• Add physical drive
• Modify volume set
• Modify RAID level/stripe size
• Define pass-through disk drives
• Modify system function
• Update firmware
• Designate drives as hot spares

6.1 Start-up McRAID Storage Manager

With the McRAID storage manager, you can locally manage a sys-
tem containing a 6Gb/s SAS RAID controller that has Windows,
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